Due to SBSB divesting from its parent company, the financial planning firm suddenly found itself in need of network monitoring and management (their parent organization had provided this coverage until the divestiture). Though SBSB had certain hardware and infrastructure already in place, they needed outside...

Securely Accelerates Cloud, Network & Application Performance for the Enterprise
RESTON, Va.--Neovera, Inc., a leading provider of cyber security services and enterprise cloud solutions, today announced the launch of its Secure Performance Hub solution in collaboration with Equinix, the leading data center and interconnection company. The...

Think your business isn’t appealing to hackers? Think again.
Every business relies on its customer base, employees, financial transactions, and other vital data to keep it running. Unfortunately, this is the same kind of information from which hackers profit. However, 82% of small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) still believe that...

Another day, another data breach - this time Dropbox, popular cloud storage behemoth, announced that over 68 Million user email addresses and passwords were dumped on the Internet. What's interesting is that the information is from a previous attack in 2012 at which time Dropbox...

User experience had become increasingly more important as web design has expanded with technological advances and consumer tastes. In the past, simply presenting information in a readable format was sufficient enough – now, presentation of information and the overall ease of use of a website is...

A hospital in Southern California made news last week after being the victim of ransomware for 10 days. Hollywood Presbyterian was only able to regain access to its electronic medical records (EMR) system after paying 40 bitcoins, or roughly $17K.
Sophos put the impact of the ransomware on...

The New Year is upon us. We’ve shaken off the food comas and hangovers, changed out of our pajamas and back into our big kid clothes and pinned a new calendar to the wall. Many of us see a new year as a fresh start,...

Emerging Threat - Juniper ScreenOS Backdoor
An advisory has been issued that unauthorized code in the ScreenOS software that powers Juniper's NetScreen firewalls has been discovered. There are two distinct issues: a backdoor in the VPN implementation that allows a passive eavesdropper to decrypt traffic and a second backdoor...

2015 is coming to a close. We’ve seen a lot this past year in the world of technology. 3D printing is breaking new ground, the Internet of Things is connecting our devices like never before, and cyber security is reaching a boiling point; so much...

New Detection Technique - Joomla RCE
A deserialization vulnerability in Joomla can lead to remote code execution (RCE). Exploitation of the vulnerability had been observed prior to the release of the official patch from the Joomla team. Since the patch release there has been widespread scanning activity looking...